Photo: BC + AI community archive.
Vancouver
Opening night, then two full program days at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
This is the shape of Futureproof Festival — not a published timetable. Come for the threshold, stay for the people, leave with a conversation that keeps moving.
Wednesday · Oct 28
The festival opens at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. The opening-night creative AI live set brings artists who treat AI as an instrument into the room — generative visuals, live-coded sound, and the first chance to meet the people you came for.
Thursday · Oct 29
A full day of conversation, creative work, and practical ideas under one planetarium dome. The 2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival runs inside the pass — there is no separate film ticket.
Friday · Oct 30
Another full day to go deeper with the same people, then the AI Film Festival closing party carries the energy into the evening. The Festival Pass covers all three days — there are no single-day passes.
Vancouver AI Community has been meeting in public for years before anyone called it a festival. Three days at the Space Centre are what that hometown conversation grows into.
Photographs from BC + AI, Vancouver AI, and Film Club nights at the Space Centre — the same building that holds opening night and both program days.
The whole crew, on stage, at once. This is what the community actually looks like.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
The community talks back. That is the point.
Photo: Michelle Diamond - Vancouver AI Meetup - 2026
Badges, patches, and a room that takes its own community seriously.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Courtyard energy, no stage required.
Photo: BC + AI community archive.
Community announcements: the part of the night that is actually about the room.
Photo: BC + AI community archive.
Six signals name the communities and pressures in the invitation. They are not a published timetable.
Creativity
Film, performance, creative practice, and the strange weather AI makes in public.
Ethics
Critical voices staying at the table until moral weight becomes practice.
Community
Actual people finding their role in the work instead of watching the show.
Builders
Demos, craft, small models, open tools, and receipts over pitch decks.
Literacy
Plain-language confidence for people who refuse to be dazzled or dismissed.
Resilience
Gathering humans while the tools pull attention apart.
Come for the conversation, or bring what you are building and put it on a table. Travel and lodging details live on the trip page.